Council Regulation (EC) No 72/2009 of 19 January 2009 on modifications to the Common Agricultural Policy by amending Regulations (EC) No 247/2006, (EC) No 320/2006, (EC) No 1405/2006, (EC) No 1234/2007, (EC) No 3/2008 and (EC) No 479/2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 1883/78, (EEC) No 1254/89, (EEC) No 2247/89, (EEC) No 2055/93, (EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 2596/97, (EC) No 1182/2005 and (EC) No 315/2007
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Contents
- Preamble
- Article 2 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 320/2006
- 2)
- Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
- 3)
- Subsection II Opening of buying-in
- 4)
- Subsection III Intervention prices
- 11)
- 15)
- Section IIIa Potato starch quotas
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- Subsection III Potato starch
- 24)
- 27)
- Section IIIa Aids in the hops sector
- 31)
- 34)
- ANNEX
- ANNEX I
- ANNEX II
- ANNEX Xa Potato starch quotas per marketing year as referred to in Article 84a
- ANNEX III
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Articles 36 and 37 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
After consulting the European Economic and Social Committee,
After consulting the Committee of the Regions,
Whereas:
(1) The reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) agreed in 2003 and 2004 included provisions for reports to gauge their effectiveness, and in particular to appraise their impact with respect to their objectives and to analyse their effects on the relevant markets. In this context, the Commission presented a Communication to the European Parliament and Council entitled Preparing for the Health Check of the CAP reform on 20 November 2007. That Communication and the subsequent discussions of its main elements by the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, as well as numerous contributions arising from public consultation should be taken into account.
(2) The provisions of the CAP concerning public intervention should be simplified and aligned by extending tendering in order to achieve a harmonised approach insofar as possible. In particular, the respect of maximum quantities and quantitative limits for cereals, butter and skimmed milk powder may require rapid action. In order to provide for this, and since closing buying-in at a fixed price, adopting allocation coefficients and, for common wheat, switching to the tendering procedure, do not involve the exercise of discretion, the Commission should be permitted to do so without the assistance of the Committee.
(3) In respect of cereals intervention, the system should be adjusted to ensure competitiveness and market orientation for the sector, while keeping the role of intervention as a safety net in the event of market disruptions and facilitating farmers' response to market conditions. Upon adoption by the Council of Regulation (EC) No 735/2007, which reformed the intervention system for maize the Commission undertook to review the cereals intervention system, on the basis of an analysis which revealed some degree of risk for additional barley intervention if prices were low. The present outlook for cereals has, however, since changed significantly, and is characterised by a favourable world market price environment driven by expanding world demand and low global cereal stocks. Within this context, intervention levels should be set at zero for other feed grains. This would allow for intervention without having negative implications for the cereals market as a whole. The favourable outlook for the cereals sector also applies to durum wheat. This means that buying into intervention has currently lost its relevance since market prices are significantly above the intervention price. Therefore, buying into intervention for durum wheat is not currently necessary and intervention levels should be set at zero. Since intervention for cereals should be a safety net rather than an element which influences price formation, the differences in harvesting periods across Member States, which effectively start the marketing years, are no longer relevant since the system will no longer provide for prices reflecting intervention levels plus monthly increments. In the interests of simplification, the dates for cereals intervention should therefore be harmonised across the Community.
(4) Since the 2003 CAP reform, the competitiveness of the rice sector has increased, with stable production, falling stocks in view of increasing demand both in the Community and on the world market, and with the expected price significantly above the intervention price. Therefore buying into intervention for rice is not currently necessary and intervention levels should be set at zero.
(5) Pigmeat production and consumption are projected to increase over the medium term, though at a slower pace than in the past decade, due to the competition from poultry meat and higher feed prices. Pigmeat prices are expected to remain significantly above the intervention price. Buying into intervention has not been used for many years for pigmeat and, in the light of the market situation and its perspectives, the possibility of buying into intervention should therefore be abolished.
(6) Since the current market situation and perspectives suggest that intervention would not, in any case, be applicable to pigmeat, durum wheat and rice in 2009, the changes to or abolition of intervention for these products should be carried out from the 2009/2010 marketing year. For other cereals, in order to allow farmers to adapt, the changes should only apply from the 2010/2011 marketing year.
(7) The medium-term outlook for the dairy sector is characterised by a continued increase in Community demand for high value added products; a substantial expansion in global demand for dairy commodities, driven by income and population growth in many regions of the world; and by changes in consumer preferences towards dairy products.
(8) Constrained by the milk quota ceilings, total Community milk production is projected to follow a gradual, though modest decline over the medium term as continued restructuring in the Member States, which were not members of the Community before 1 May 2004, will lead to a decline in subsistence milk production, while production growth remains limited due to the existence of quotas. At the same time, the quantity of milk delivered to dairies for processing is expected to continue to increase over the projected period. In the light of strong internal and external demand, the milk quota system is hence restricting production expansion, as opposed to the situation when quotas were introduced as a response to overproduction. In such a market situation, quotas reduce market orientation because they distort farmers' response to price signals, and prevent efficiency gains in the sector by slowing down restructuring. The quotas are scheduled to end in 2015. Appropriate adjustments should be made by degrees so to allow for a smooth transition by avoiding an excessive adjustment after quotas have ended. The phasing-out of dairy quotas by annual increases of 1 % should therefore be provided per marketing year from 2009/2010 to 2013/2014. Other changes to make the milk quota system more flexible as regards the fat adjustment, by abolishing the adjustment set out in Article 80(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (the Single CMO Regulation), and as regards the quota inactivity rules, by increasing the percentage in Article 72(2) of that Regulation which a producer should use during a twelve-month period and thus making it easier for unused quota to be reallocated, should also be made for the same reasons. In the context of the restructuring of the sector, Member States should be permitted until 31 March 2014 to grant an additional national aid within certain limits. The quota increases decided by Council Regulation (EC) No 248/2008 of 17 March 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the national quotas for milk and the 1 % annual increase, along with the other changes which reduce the likelihood of the surplus levy being incurred mean that only Italy would be at risk of the levy being incurred on the basis of current production patterns if annual increases of 1 % were applied from the 2009/2010 period until 2013/2014. Therefore, taking into account the current production patterns in all Member States, the increase in quota should be front-loaded for Italy in order to avoid this risk. In order to ensure that in all Member States the quota increases lead to a controlled and smooth transition, the surplus levy system should be strengthened for the next two years and be set at an appropriately dissuasive level. An additional levy should therefore be imposed in cases where increases in deliveries would significantly exceed the 2008/2009 quota levels.
(9) The cheese market is steadily expanding with increased demand from inside as well as from outside the Community. In general, therefore, prices for cheese have for some time remained constant and have not been significantly influenced by the reduction of the institutional prices for bulk products (butter and skimmed-milk powder). From both an economic and market management point of view, permanent and optional aid for the private storage of a high value, market-driven product like cheese is no longer justified and should therefore be abolished.
(10) In the context of the dairy reform and the current market situation, the aid for skimmed-milk powder used as animal feed and skimmed milk for casein production is not currently needed. However, should surpluses of milk products build up or be likely to occur, thus creating or likely to create a serious imbalance in the market, such aid could still play a role. The decision should, however, be taken by the Commission based on sound market analysis rather than an obligation to open the scheme every year. The scheme should, therefore, become optional. If applied, the aid should be determined in advance or by tender.
(11) Disposal aid for butter intended for pastry and ice cream and for direct consumption has been reduced in line with the reduction of the intervention price for butter as from 2004 and was consequently at zero before tenders were suspended due to the favourable market situation. Disposal aid schemes are no longer needed to support the market at intervention price level and should therefore be abolished.
(12) As was the case with the CAP reform of 2003, with a view to enhancing the competitiveness of Community agriculture and promoting more market-oriented and sustainable agriculture, it is necessary to continue the shift from production support to producer support by abolishing the existing aids in the Single CMO Regulation for dried fodder, flax, hemp and potato starch and integrating support for these products into the system of decoupled income support for each farm. As was the case with the 2003 CAP reform, while decoupling aid paid to farmers will leave the actual amounts paid unchanged, it will significantly increase the effectiveness of the income support.
(13) The aid for flax and hemp fibre should now be decoupled. However, in order to allow the flax and hemp industry to adapt, integration of this support into the Single Payment Scheme should be carried out during a transitional period. Aid should therefore be provided for long flax fibre, short flax fibre and hemp fibre until 1 July 2012. Maintaining the aid for short flax fibre and hemp fibre, in order to balance the aid in the sector, means that the aid for long flax fibre should be reduced. However, in order to respect the legitimate expectations of growers, this reduction should only take place from the 2010/2011 marketing year.
(14) The dried fodder regime was reformed in 2003, when part of the aid was given to the industry and the rest was decoupled and integrated into the Single Payment Scheme. In the context of the overall move towards more market orientation, the present outlook in the markets for feed and protein crops and the particular negative environmental impact that the production of dehydrated fodder has recently been found to generate, the transition to full decoupling for the entire sector should be completed by decoupling the remaining aid to the industry. In order to mitigate the effects of ending the payment of aid to the industry, the appropriate adjustments in the price paid to the producers of the raw materials, who will themselves be receiving increased direct aid entitlements as a result of decoupling, should be made. The sector has been restructuring since the 2003 reform, a transitional period until 1 April 2012 should nonetheless be provided for to allow the sector to adjust.
(15) The system set out in Council Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 of 27 July 1994 establishing a quota system in relation to the production of potato starch will no longer be required once the related aid for starch potato growers laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of 19 January 2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the Common Agricultural Policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers is abolished. Aid to producers was partially decoupled in 2003 and this aid should now be fully decoupled although a transitional period until 1 July 2012 should be provided to allow farmers to adapt their supply commitments to the potato starch aid scheme. The related minimum price should, therefore, also be extended for the same period. Beyond that date, the quota system related to the direct payment should be removed in parallel with the full integration of that direct payment into the single payment scheme. In the meantime, the provisions concerned should be integrated, as is the case with other aids and quota schemes, into the Single CMO Regulation.
(16) Developments in domestic and international cereal and starch markets render the starch production refund no longer relevant with respect to its initial objectives, and it should therefore be abolished. The market situation and perspectives are such that the aid has been set at zero for some time and this is expected to continue, which means that abolition may take place rapidly without any negative effects for the sector.
(17) Producer organisations can serve a useful role in grouping supply in sectors where there is an imbalance in the concentration of producers and purchasers. Member States should therefore be able to recognise producer organisations on a Community level in all sectors.
(18) Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers provides for Member States to retain part of the component of national ceilings corresponding to the hops area payments and use them, in particular, to finance certain activities of recognised producer organisations. That Regulation is being repealed and in Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 the hops area payment is being decoupled from 1 January 2010, which means that under the provision the last payment to producer organisations will be made in 2010. In order to allow the hop producer organisations to continue their activities as before, a specific provision should be made for equivalent amounts to be used in the Member State concerned for the same activities with effect from 1 January 2011.
(19) The Single CMO Regulation provides for amounts withheld from the aid for olive groves under Article 110i(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 to be used to finance work programmes of operator organisations. Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 is being repealed. In the interests of clarity and legal certainty, specific provision should be made to set out the amounts to be used in the Member States concerned for the work programmes.
(20) In the interests of legal certainty, and simplicity it is appropriate to clarify and harmonise the provisions on the non-application of Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty to payments made by Member States in conformity with Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 or Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 of 30 January 2006 laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union, Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 of 20 February 2006 establishing a temporary scheme for the restructuring of the sugar industry in the Community, Council Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006 of 18 September 2006 laying down specific measures for agriculture in favour of the smaller Aegean islands, Council Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 of 17 December 2007 on information provision and promotion measures for agricultural products on the internal market and in third countries and Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 of 29 April 2008 on the common organisation of the market in wine. In this context, the provisions of those Regulations which otherwise would or might, under certain circumstances, fall within the notion of State aid within the meaning of Article 87(1) of the Treaty should be excluded from the application of State aid rules. The provisions concerned contain appropriate conditions for the granting of support to prevent the undue distortion of competition.
(21) Regulations (EC) No 247/2006, (EC) No 320/2006, (EC) No 1405/2006, (EC) No 1234/2007, (EC) No 3/2008 and (EC) No 479/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(22) The following acts are obsolete and should therefore, in the interests of legal certainty, be repealed: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1883/78 of 2 August 1978 laying down general rules for the financing of interventions by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section, Council Regulation (EEC) No 1254/89 of 3 May 1989 fixing, for the 1989/90 marketing year, inter alia, certain sugar prices and the standard quality of beet, Council Regulation (EEC) No 2247/89 of 24 July 1989 on an emergency measure for the free supply of certain agricultural products to Poland, Council Regulation (EEC) No 2055/93 of 19 July 1993 allocating a special reference quantity to certain producers of milk and milk products and Council Regulation (EC) No 1182/2005 of 18 July 2005 adopting autonomous and transitional measures to open a Community tariff quota for the import of live bovine animals originating in Switzerland. The following acts will become obsolete with effect from 1 May 2009 and, for the same reasons, should therefore be repealed with effect from that date: Council Regulation (EC) No 2596/97 of 18 December 1997 extending the period provided for in Article 149(1) of the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden and Council Regulation (EC) No 315/2007 of 19 March 2007 laying down transitional measures derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2597/97 as regards drinking milk produced in Estonia.
(23) This Regulation should, as a general rule, apply from the date of its entry into force. However, in order to ensure that the provisions of this Regulation do not interfere with certain aids payable for the 2008/2009 or 2009/2010 marketing years, a later date of application should be provided for in respect of those provisions directly affecting the operation of schemes in sectors for which marketing years are envisaged. This Regulation should in such cases only apply as from the start of the later marketing years,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 247/2006
Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 is amended as follows:
1) The second subparagraph of paragraph 3 shall be deleted.
2) The following paragraph shall be added:
4. Without prejudice to paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article and by way of derogation from Article 180 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 and Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006, Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty shall not apply to payments made under Title III, paragraph 3 of this Article and Articles 17 and 21 of this Regulation by Member States in conformity with this Regulation.
Article 2 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 320/2006
Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 is amended as follows:
1) Article 6(6) shall be replaced by the following:
6. Member States shall not grant national aid in respect of diversification measures provided for in this Article. However, if the ceilings referred to in the third subparagraph of paragraph 4 permit the granting of an aid for diversification of 100 %, the Member State concerned shall contribute at least 20 % of the eligible expenditure..
2) The following Article shall be inserted:
Article 2 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 320/2006
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Article 13a State aids
Without prejudice to Article 6(5) of this Regulation and by way of derogation from Article 180 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 and Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006, Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty shall not apply to payments made under Articles 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 of this Regulation by Member States in conformity with this Regulation.
Article 3 Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006
The following paragraph shall be added to Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006:
3. Without prejudice to paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article and by way of derogation from Article 180 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 and Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006, Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty shall not apply to payments made under Articles 4 and 7 of this Regulation by Member States in conformity with this Regulation.
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 is amended as follows:
1) Point (a) of Article 8(1) shall be replaced by the following:
(a) as regards the cereals sector, EUR 101,31 per tonne;
2) Paragraph 2 of Article 10 shall be deleted;
3) Subsection II of Section II of Chapter I of Title I of Part II shall be replaced by the following:
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
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Subsection II Opening of buying-in
Article 11 Public intervention periods
Public intervention shall be available:
(a) for cereals, from 1 November to 31 May;
(b) for paddy rice, from 1 April to 31 July;
(c) for sugar, throughout the marketing years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010;
(d) for beef and veal, throughout any marketing year;
(e) for butter and skimmed milk powder, from 1 March to 31 August.
Article 12 Opening of public intervention
1. During the periods referred to in Article 11, public intervention:
(a) shall be open for common wheat;
(b) shall be open for durum wheat, barley, maize, sorghum, paddy rice, sugar, butter and skimmed milk powder up to the intervention limits referred to in Article 13(1);
(c) shall be opened for beef and veal by the Commission, without the assistance of the Committee referred to in Article 195(1), if the average market price for beef and veal over a representative period in a Member State or in a region of a Member State recorded on the basis of the Community scale for the classification of carcasses provided for in Article 42(1) is below EUR 1560/tonne.
2. Public intervention for beef and veal, referred to in point (c) of paragraph 1, shall be closed by the Commission, without the assistance of the Committee referred to in Article 195(1), where, over a representative period, the conditions provided for in that point are no longer fulfilled.
Article 13 Intervention limits
1. Buying into public intervention shall be carried out within the following limits:
(a) for durum wheat, barley, maize, sorghum and paddy rice, 0 tonnes for the periods referred to in Article 11(a) and (b) respectively;
(b) for sugar, 600000 tonnes, expressed in white sugar, for each marketing year;
(c) for butter, 30000 tonnes for each period referred to in Article 11(e);
(d) for skimmed milk powder 109000 tonnes for each period referred to Article 11(e).
2. Sugar stored in accordance with point (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article during a marketing year shall not be subject to any of the other storage measures provided for in Articles 32, 52 and 63.
3. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, for the products referred to in points (a), (c) and (d) of that paragraph, the Commission may decide to continue public intervention beyond the amounts referred to in that paragraph if the market situation and, in particular, the development of market prices, so requires..
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
4) Subsection III of Section II of Chapter I of Title I of Part II shall be replaced by the following:
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
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Subsection III Intervention prices
Article 18 Intervention prices
1. The intervention price:
(a) for common wheat shall be equal to the reference price for a maximum quantity offered of 3 million tonnes per intervention period as fixed in Article 11(a);
(b) for butter shall be equal to 90 % of the reference price for amounts offered within the limit in Article 13(1)(c);
(c) for skimmed milk powder shall be equal to the reference price for amounts offered within the limit in Article 13(1)(d).
2. The intervention prices and the quantities for intervention for the following products shall be determined by the Commission by means of tendering procedures: In special circumstances, tendering procedures may be restricted to, or the intervention prices and the quantities for intervention may be fixed per, Member State or region of a Member State on the basis of recorded average market prices.
(a) common wheat for amounts in excess of the maximum quantity offered of 3 million tonnes per intervention period as fixed in Article 11(a);
(b) durum wheat, barley, maize, sorghum and paddy rice, in application of Article 13(3);
(c) beef and veal;
(d) butter for amounts offered in excess of the limit in Article 13(1)(c), in application of Article 13(3), and
(e) skimmed milk powder for amounts offered in excess of the limit in Article 13(1)(d), in application of Article 13(3).
3. The maximum buying-in price determined in accordance with tendering procedures under paragraph 2 shall not be higher:
(a) for cereals and paddy rice, than the respective reference prices;
(b) for beef and veal, than the average market price recorded in a Member State or a region of a Member State increased by an amount to be determined by the Commission on the basis of objective criteria;
(c) for butter, than 90 % of the reference price;
(d) for skimmed milk powder, than the reference price.
4. The intervention prices referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall be:
(a) for cereals, without prejudice to price increases or reductions for quality reasons, and
(b) for paddy rice, increased or decreased accordingly if the quality of the products offered to the paying agency differs from the standard quality, defined in point A of Annex IV. Moreover, increases and reductions of the intervention price may be fixed by the Commission in order to ensure that production is orientated towards certain varieties.
5. The intervention price for sugar shall be 80 % of the reference price fixed for the marketing year following the marketing year during which the offer is lodged. However, if the quality of the sugar offered to the paying agency differs from the standard quality defined in point B of Annex IV for which the reference price is fixed, the intervention price shall be increased or reduced accordingly..
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
5) Point (b) of Article 28 shall be deleted.
6) Article 30 shall be deleted.
7) Article 31 shall be amended as follows:
(a) point (e) of paragraph 1 shall be deleted;
(b) in paragraph 2, the second subparagraph shall be deleted.
8) Article 36 shall be deleted.
9) Article 43 shall be amended as follows:
(a) point (a) shall be replaced by the following:
(a) the requirements and conditions to be met by products to be bought into public intervention as referred to in Article 10 or for which aid for private storage is granted as referred to in Articles 28 and 31, in particular with respect to quality, quality groups, quality grades, categories, quantities, packaging including labelling, maximum ages, preservation, the stage of the products to which the intervention price relates, and the duration of private storage;;
(b) the following point shall be added after point (a):
(aa) the respect of the maximum quantities and quantitative limits set out in Article 13(1) and point (a) of Article 18(1); in this context, the implementing rules may authorise the Commission to close buying-in at a fixed price, adopt allocation coefficients and, for common wheat, switch to the tendering procedure referred to in Article 18(2), without the assistance of the Committee referred to in Article 195(1);.
10) Article 46(3) shall be deleted.
11) Article 55 shall be replaced by the following:
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
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Article 55 Quota systems
1. A quota system shall apply to the following products:
(a) milk and other milk products within the meaning of points (a) and (b) of Article 65;
(b) sugar, isoglucose and inulin syrup;
(c) potato starch which may benefit from Community aid.
2. As regards the quota systems referred to in points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article, if a producer exceeds the relevant quota and, with regard to sugar, does not make use of the surplus quantities as provided for in Article 61, a surplus levy shall be payable on such quantities, subject to the conditions set out in Sections II and III..
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
12) In Article 72(2), 70 % shall be replaced by 85 %.
13) The following subparagraph shall be added to Article 78(1): However, for the twelve-month periods starting on 1 April 2009 and 1 April 2010, the surplus levy for milk delivered in excess of 106 % of the national quota for deliveries applicable for the twelve-month period starting on 1 April 2008 shall be set at 150 % of the levy referred to in the second subparagraph..
14) Article 80 shall be amended as follows:
(a) the following subparagraph shall be added to paragraph 1: At national level, the surplus levy shall be calculated on the basis of the sum of the deliveries, adjusted in accordance with the first subparagraph.;
(b) paragraph 2 shall be deleted;
(c) the following subparagraph shall be added to paragraph 3: Where the third subparagraph of Article 78(1) applies, Member States, in establishing each producer's contribution to the amount of levy payable due to the application of the higher rate referred to in that subparagraph, shall ensure that this amount is contributed proportionately by the producers responsible according to objective criteria to be set by the Member State..
15) The following Section shall be inserted in Chapter III of Title I of Part II:
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
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Section IIIa Potato starch quotas
Article 84a Potato starch quotas
1. The potato starch producing Member States shall be allocated quotas for the marketing year during which the quota scheme applies in accordance with Article 204(5) and Annex Xa.
2. Each producer Member State referred to in Annex Xa shall allocate its quota among potato starch manufacturers for use in the marketing years concerned on the basis of the subquotas allocated to each manufacturer in 2007/2008.
3. An undertaking producing potato starch shall not conclude cultivation contracts with potato producers for a quantity of potatoes which would produce a quantity of starch in excess of its quota as referred to in paragraph 2.
4. Any potato starch produced in excess of the quota as referred to in paragraph 2 shall be exported, as such, from the Community before 1 January following the end of the marketing year in question. No export refund shall be paid in respect of it.
5. Notwithstanding paragraph 4, an undertaking producing potato starch may, in any marketing year, in addition to its quota for that year, utilise no more than 5 % of its quota relating to the following marketing year. In such case, the quota for the following marketing year shall be reduced accordingly.
6. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the production of potato starch by undertakings which are not subject to paragraph 2 of this Article and which purchase potatoes for which producers do not benefit from the payment provided for in Article 77 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of 19 January 2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the Common Agricultural Policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers.
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
16) In Article 85, the following point shall be added:
(d) in respect of Section IIIa, mergers, changes of ownership and the commencement or cessation of trading of potato starch manufacturers..
17) Subsection I of Section I of Chapter IV of Title I of Part II shall be deleted.
18) In Article 91(1), the first two subparagraphs shall be replaced by the following subparagraph: Aid for processing the straw of long flax grown for fibre and the straw of short flax and hemp grown for fibre shall be granted for the 2009/2010 to 2011/2012 marketing years to authorised primary processors on the basis of the quantity of fibre actually obtained from straw for which a contract of sale has been concluded with a farmer..
19) The first subparagraph of Article 92(1) shall be amended as follows:
(a) the second indent of point (a) shall be replaced by the following two indents:
— at EUR 200 per tonne for the 2009/2010 marketing year; and
— at EUR 160 per tonne for the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 marketing years..
(b) point (b) shall be replaced by the following:
(b) at EUR 90 per tonne for the 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 marketing years for short flax and hemp fibre containing not more than 7,5 % impurities and shives;.
20) Article 94(1) shall be replaced by the following:
1. A maximum guaranteed quantity of 80878 tonnes for each of the 2009/2010 to 2011/2012 marketing years shall be established for long flax fibre in respect of which aid may be granted. That quantity shall be apportioned among certain Member States as national guaranteed quantities in accordance with point A.I. of Annex XI..
21) Article 94(1a) shall be replaced by the following:
1a. A maximum guaranteed quantity of 147265 tonnes for each of the 2009/2010 to 2011/2012 marketing years shall be established for short flax fibre and hemp fibre in respect of which aid may be granted. That quantity shall be apportioned as national guaranteed quantities among certain Member States in accordance with point A.II. of Annex XI..
22) The following subsection shall be inserted into Section I of Chapter IV of Title I of Part II:
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
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Subsection III Potato starch
Article 95a Potato starch premium
1. A premium of EUR 22,25 per tonne of starch produced shall be paid for the 2009/2010, 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 marketing years to potato starch manufacturers for the quantity of potato starch up to the quota limit referred to in Article 84a(2), provided that they have paid to potato producers a minimum price for all the potatoes necessary to produce starch up to that quota limit.
2. The minimum price of potatoes intended for the manufacture of potato starch shall be set at EUR 178,31 per tonne for the marketing years concerned. This price applies to the quantity of potatoes, delivered to the factory, which is needed to make one tonne of starch. The minimum price shall be adjusted according to the starch content of the potatoes.
3. The Commission shall adopt the detailed rules for the implementation of this Subsection..
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
23) Article 96 shall be deleted.
24) Articles 99 and 100 shall be replaced by the following:
Article 4 Amendments to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
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Article 99 Aid for skimmed milk and skimmed milk powder for use as feedingstuffs
1. When surpluses of milk products build up or are likely to occur, creating or likely to create a serious imbalance in the market, the Commission may decide that aid shall be granted for Community-produced skimmed milk and skimmed-milk powder intended for use as feedingstuffs, according to conditions and product standards to be determined by the Commission. The aid may be fixed in advance or by means of tendering procedures. For the purposes of this Article, buttermilk and buttermilk powder shall be regarded as skimmed milk and skimmed-milk powder.
2. Aid amounts shall be fixed by the Commission taking into account the reference price fixed in point (e)(ii) of Article 8(1) for skimmed-milk powder, and the development of the market situation as regards skimmed milk and skimmed-milk powder.
Article 100 Aid for skimmed milk processed into casein and caseinates
1. When surpluses of milk products build up or are likely to occur, creating or likely to create a serious imbalance in the market, the Commission may decide that aid shall be granted for Community-produced skimmed milk processed into casein and caseinates, according to conditions and product standards of such milk and the casein or caseinates produced from it to be determined by the Commission. The aid may be fixed in advance or by means of tendering procedures.
2. Aid shall be fixed by the Commission taking into account the development of the market situation for skimmed-milk powder and the reference price for skimmed-milk powder, fixed in point (e)(ii) of Article 8(1). The aid may vary, according to whether the skimmed milk is processed into casein or caseinates and according to the quality of those products..
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25) Article 101 shall be deleted.
26) Article 102(2) shall be replaced by the following:
2. Member States may, in addition to Community aid, grant national aid for supplying the products referred to in paragraph 1 to pupils in educational establishments. Member States may finance their national aid by means of a levy on the dairy sector or by any other contribution from the dairy sector..
27) The following section shall be inserted:
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27)
Section IIIa Aids in the hops sector
Article 102a Aids to producer organisations
1. The Community shall finance a payment to producer organisations in the hops sector recognised under Article 122 to finance the aims referred to in that Article.
2. The Community financing per year for the payment to producer organisations shall be EUR 2277000 for Germany.
3. The Commission shall adopt the detailed rules for the implementation of this Section..
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28) Article 103 shall be amended as follows:
(a) the introductory part of paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:
1. The Community shall finance three-year work programmes to be drawn up by the operator organisations referred to in Article 125 in one or more of the following areas:;
(b) the following paragraph shall be inserted:
1a. The Community financing per year of the work programmes shall be:
(a) EUR 11098000 for Greece,
(b) EUR 576000 for France, and
(c) EUR 35991000 for Italy..
29) Article 103e(2) shall be deleted.
30) Article 105(2) shall be replaced by the following:
2. Member States may pay specific national aids for the protection of apiaries disadvantaged by structural or natural conditions or under economic development programmes, except for those allocated for production or trade. These aids shall be notified to the Commission by Member States together with the communication of the apiculture programme in accordance with Article 109..
31) Article 119 shall be replaced by the following:
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31)
Article 119 Use of casein and caseinate in the manufacture of cheese
Where aid is paid under Article 100, the Commission may make the use of casein and caseinates in the manufacture of cheese subject to prior authorisation which shall be granted only if such use is a necessary condition for the manufacture of the products..
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32) The following paragraph shall be added to Article 122: Member States may also recognise producer organisations constituted by producers in any sector referred to in Article 1, other than those sectors referred to in point (a) of the first paragraph, on the conditions set out in points (b) and (c) of that paragraph..
33) Article 124(1) shall be replaced by the following:
1. Article 122 and Article 123(1) shall apply without prejudice to the recognition, decided by Member States on the basis of national law and in compliance with Community law, of producer organisations or interbranch organisations respectively, in any sector referred to in Article 1 except for the sectors referred to in point (a) of the first paragraph of Article 122 and in Article 123(1)..
34) Article 180 shall be replaced by the following:
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34)
Article 180 Application of Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty
Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty shall apply to the production of, and trade in, the products referred to in points (a) to (k) and points (m) to (u) of Article 1(1) and in Article 1(3) of this Regulation. However, Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty shall not apply to payments made under Articles 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 102, 102a, 103, 103a, 103b, 103e, 103ga, 104, 105 and 182 of this Regulation by Member States in conformity with this Regulation..
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35) The following paragraph shall be added to Article 182:
7. Member States may grant until 31 March 2014 state aid of a total annual amount of up to 55 % of the ceiling set out in Article 69(4) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 to farmers in the dairy sector in addition to Community support granted in accordance with Article 68(1)(b) of that Regulation. However, in no case shall the total amount of Community support under the measures referred to in Article 68(4) of that Regulation and state aid exceed the ceiling referred to in the Article 68(4)..
36) The following point shall be added to Article 184:
6) before 31 December 2010 and 31 December 2012 to the European Parliament and Council regarding the evolution of the market situation and the consequent conditions for smoothly phasing out the milk quota system, accompanied if necessary by appropriate proposals. Furthermore, a report will study the consequences for producers of cheeses with a protected designation of origin in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 510/2006..
37) The following paragraph shall be added to Article 204:
5. As regards potato starch, Section IIIa of Chapter III of Title I of Part II shall apply until the end of the 2011/2012 marketing year for potato starch..
38) Point 1 of Annex IX shall be replaced by the text in Annex I to this Regulation.
39) The text of Annex II to this Regulation shall be inserted as Annex Xa.
40) The text of Annex III to this Regulation shall be inserted in Annex XXII as point 20a.
Article 5 Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 3/2008
Article 13(6) of Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 shall be replaced by the following:
6. By way of derogation from Article 180 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 and Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1184/2006, Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty shall not apply to payments made by Member States, including their financial participations, nor to the financial participations from parafiscal charges or mandatory contributions of Member States or proposing organisations for programmes eligible for Community support under Article 36 of the Treaty, that the Commission has selected in accordance with Article 8(1) of this Regulation.
Article 6 Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 479/2008
Article 127(2) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 shall be replaced by the following:
2. Without prejudice to the maximum aid rates referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 8(4) of this Regulation, Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty shall not apply to payments made under Title II, Chapter III of Title V, and Article 119 of this Regulation by Member States in conformity with this Regulation..
Article 7 Repeals
1. Regulations (EEC) No 1883/78, (EEC) No 1254/89, (EEC) No 2247/89, (EEC) No 2055/93 and (EC) No 1182/2005 shall be repealed.
2. Regulations (EC) No 2596/97 and (EC) No 315/2007 shall be repealed with effect from 1 May 2009.
3. Regulation (EC) No 1868/94 shall be repealed with effect from 1 July 2009. References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 and shall be read in accordance with the respective correlation table in Annex XXII to that Regulation.
Article 8 Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. However:
(a) Points 5 to 8, 12 to 14 and 38 of Article 4 shall apply from 1 April 2009;
(b) Points 11, 15, 16, 18 to 25, 31, 37 and 39 of Article 4 shall apply from 1 July 2009;
(c) Points 1, 3, 4, and 9(b) of Article 4 shall apply from:
(i) 1 July 2009, as regards durum wheat,
(ii) 1 September 2009, as regards the rice sector,
(iii) 1 October 2009, as regards the sugar sector,
(iv) 1 July 2010, as regards common wheat, barley, maize and sorghum,
(d) Point 27 of Article 4 shall apply from 1 January 2011;
(e) Point 17 of Article 4 shall apply from 1 April 2012.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 19 January 2009. For the Council The President P. Gandalovič
ANNEX
ANNEX I
1. National quotas: quantities (tonnes) per twelve-month period per Member State: Member State 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 Belgium 3427288,740 3461561,627 3496177,244 3531139,016 3566450,406 3602114,910 3602114,910 Bulgaria 998580,000 1008565,800 1018651,458 1028837,973 1039126,352 1049517,616 1049517,616 Czech Republic 2792689,620 2820616,516 2848822,681 2877310,908 2906084,017 2935144,857 2935144,857 Denmark 4612619,520 4658745,715 4705333,172 4752386,504 4799910,369 4847909,473 4847909,473 Germany 28847420,391 29135894,595 29427253,541 29721526,076 30018741,337 30318928,750 30318928,750 Estonia 659295,360 665888,314 672547,197 679272,669 686065,395 692926,049 692926,049 Ireland 5503679,280 5558716,073 5614303,234 5670446,266 5727150,729 5784422,236 5784422,236 Greece 836923,260 845292,493 853745,418 862282,872 870905,700 879614,757 879614,757 Spain 6239289,000 6301681,890 6364698,709 6428345,696 6492629,153 6557555,445 6557555,445 France 25091321,700 25342234,917 25595657,266 25851613,839 26110129,977 26371231,277 26371231,277 Italy 10740661,200 11288542,866 11288542,866 11288542,866 11288542,866 11288542,866 11288542,866 Cyprus 148104,000 149585,040 151080,890 152591,699 154117,616 155658,792 155658,792 Latvia 743220,960 750653,170 758159,701 765741,298 773398,711 781132,698 781132,698 Lithuania 1738935,780 1756325,138 1773888,389 1791627,273 1809543,546 1827638,981 1827638,981 Luxembourg 278545,680 281331,137 284144,448 286985,893 289855,752 292754,310 292754,310 Hungary 2029861,200 2050159,812 2070661,410 2091368,024 2112281,704 2133404,521 2133404,521 Malta 49671,960 50168,680 50670,366 51177,070 51688,841 52205,729 52205,729 Netherlands 11465630,280 11580286,583 11696089,449 11813050,343 11931180,847 12050492,655 12050492,655 Austria 2847478,469 2875953,254 2904712,786 2933759,914 2963097,513 2992728,488 2992728,488 Poland 9567745,860 9663423,319 9760057,552 9857658,127 9956234,709 10055797,056 10055797,056 Portugal 1987521,000 2007396,210 2027470,172 2047744,874 2068222,323 2088904,546 2088904,546 Romania 3118140,000 3149321,400 3180814,614 3212622,760 3244748,988 3277196,478 3277196,478 Slovenia 588170,760 594052,468 599992,992 605992,922 612052,851 618173,380 618173,380 Slovakia 1061603,760 1072219,798 1082941,996 1093771,416 1104709,130 1115756,221 1115756,221 Finland 2491930,710 2516850,017 2542018,517 2567438,702 2593113,089 2619044,220 2619044,220 Sweden 3419595,900 3453791,859 3488329,778 3523213,075 3558445,206 3594029,658 3594029,658 United Kingdom 15125168,940 15276420,629 15429184,836 15583476,684 15739311,451 15896704,566 15896704,566
ANNEX II
ANNEX Xa Potato starch quotas per marketing year as referred to in Article 84a
Member State (tonnes) Czech Republic 33660 Denmark 168215 Germany 656298 Estonia 250 Spain 1943 France 265354 Latvia 5778 Lithuania 1211 Netherlands 507403 Austria 47691 Poland 144985 Slovakia 729 Finland 53178 Sweden 62066 TOTAL 1948761
ANNEX III
20a. Regulation (EEC) No 1868/94 Regulation (EEC) No 1868/94 This Regulation Article 1 Article 55(1)(c) Article 2(1) and (2), first subparagraph Article 84a(1) and (2) Article 4 Article 84a(3) Article 4a Article 95a(2) Article 5 Article 95a(1) Article 6 Article 84a(4) and (5) Article 7 Article 84a(6) Article 8 Articles 85(d) and 95a(3)
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